Screen.



N. BRANDT.

SGREEN.

APPLIOATION FILED MAR. 19, 1909.

" Patented Oct. 12, 1909.

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ATTORNE V8 NOAH BRA D or new YORK, N. Y.

Specification of Ietters Patent.

rammed Oct. 12, 1909.

Application med march 19, 1909. Serial No. 484,396.

To all whom it may come-Ta.- 7

Be it known that I, Noarr BRANDT, a citizen of the United Statesand aresident of New York, county and State of New York, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Screens, of which the followingis a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates more particularly to an adjustable screen forwindows.

The primary object of the invention is to provide a simple and efficientdevice which may be made to adjust itself to windows of different sizes,and which is of such a nature that the said device will readily hold inany position that it may be placed, either above or under the windowsash so as tov provide effective means for ventilating purposes, or as ameans to prevent insects from entering a house or other building,thereby overcoming the objections incident to the ordinary form ofscreens which are not adjustable and which are very cumbersome. 1

Another object of the invention is to provide simple and eflicient meanswhereby the members of the screens may be moved toward each other andthen automatically forced apart to fit different sizes of windows.

A further object of the invention is to provide a device which is notexpensive to manufacture, and which may be readily assembled and placedin position for use.

With these and other objects in view, the invention will be hereinaftermore particularly described with reference to the acco1npanyingdrawings, which form a part of this specification, and will then bepointed out in the claim at the end of the description.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of one form of deviceembodying my invention, showing the same as applied to a window. Fig. 2is an enlarged transverse section, partly broken away, of the device,taken on line IIII of Fig. 3. Fig. 3 is a plan view, showing in section,the means for yieldingly holding the members together;

and Fig. 4 is a fragmentary section showing how the wire members may beheld by the frame members.

The window frame 10 may have one or more sashes 11 which are adapted tomove vertically in the usual manner, and adapted to fit in the frame 10in a manner similar to that of the sashes 11 is a device or screen 12.

This device may be of any desired width and of any desired length, andcomprises a plurality of members adjustable with relation to each other.As shown there are two members 13 and 14, and each member has a metallicframe 15. Each frame of the members may be formed by bending a strip ofmetal upon itself so as to be substantially U -shaped, and to form aspace, as 16, in which adapted to fit the screen member 17 of suitablewire mesh or otherwise. The member 17 may be of any suitable open workand serves to fill the space between the sides and ends of each framemember, and said member 17 may serve as a ventilating means or as meansto prevent insects from entering the room or other place where thescreen may be located. By providing metallic frame members and arrangingthem in the manner shown, a much more attractive device is provided, andby reason of the narrow metallic frame members the device will beheld inthe window frame so as to be movable with or independently of the windowsashes. The members 13 and 14 overlap at their inner ends, and one ofsaid members, as 13, is provided with a tubular part or device 18 at theupper and at the lower side thereof, and said parts may be in the formof cylinders. A rod 19 is slidably held in each of the cylinders ordevices 18 at one end and at its other end, as 20, is secured to theother member 14, and arranged within each cylinder and normally forcingthe rod in one direction is a spring 21. The spring 21 may be heldbetween one head of the cylinder and its other end may be held to therod 19, or may engage a washer 22 so as to tend normally to force thecylinder and rods in opposite directions and thereby force the members13 and 14 apart. The members are thus yieldingly held together so as tohave a relative movement with respect to each other, and said membersmay thereby be adjusted to fit windows of different sizes and may beproperly held in the window frame in any desired location to serveeither as an insect protector or for ventilating purposes.

as 23, to the lower rod 19 so that by lowering the upper window sash,the device may be forced downward and in this way made more convenientfor removal from the window, and attached to the device to permit itsmembers to be moved relatively to each other, I provide a handle, as24:, on the mem ber 13, to adapt the same to be more readily heldwhenthe members are to be adjusted to fit the window frame.

From the foregoing it will be seen that a simple and efficient device isprovided in which a plurality of members may be adjusted to fitdifferent sizes of windows; that said side device is simple inconstruction and may be readily made and assembled; that simple means isprovided whereby the two members may be properly and yieldingly held,and that each member may have a metallic frame so as to make the devicemore attractive in appearance and durable in use than is the case withthe ordinary frame.

frames, cylinders secured to the horizontal. 1

members of one screen frame, rods secured to the horizontal members ofthe other screen frame, and extending longitudinally through thecylinders, stops or shoulders on the rods in the cylinders, and coiledsprings in the 1.:

cylinders around the rods and bearing at their ends against the cylinderheads and said stops or shouldersrespectively.

This specification signed and witnessed this 17th day of March A. D.1909.

NOAH BRANDT. Vitnesses W. A. TOWNER, J r., M. DINNHAUPT.

